Schmeisser and Wehle Families Papers

Collection — Box: 1-3

Identifier: MS-968

Staff Only

Dates

1850s-1903

Language of Materials Note

Records are in English and German.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biographical Note

The Wehle Family of Calumet, Michigan included Johann Ernest Wehle (1834-1918), his wife Martha (Paprey) Wehle (1847-1914), and their daughter Mary Agnes Wehle (1869-1947). Johann was born in Saxony, Germany and his wife, Martha, in Serbia. Their daughter, Mary Agnes, was born in Germany in 1869. The Wehle’s immigrated to the United States in the 1870s, settling in Red Jacket, later Calumet, Michigan. Johann worked for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company as a timerman and later as a watchman by 1898 retiring from the company in 1916, two years prior to his death in 1918.

Mary Agnes married Emil Schmeisser (1851-1903), a machinist from Germany in 1888 who also worked for C&H, and the couple had two children, Martha E. (1890-1990) and Ernest Otto (1889-1919). Ernest also worked for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company as a fireman as early as 1906.